through-ganging

Updated: May 18, 2025

Ye're a gentleman, sir, and should ken a horse's points; ye see that through-ganging thing that Balmawhapple's on; I selled her till him. She was bred out of Lick-the-Ladle, that wan the king's plate at Caverton-Edge, by Duke Hamilton's White-foot, &c. &c. &c.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since